Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

“Working Class Heroes”: From Stephen Blackpool in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854) to John Lennon and then to Angelo Herndon

Taylor Swift, “the sin of wit”, and an “erroneous attribution"

A curse and “a mighty gun” in two Emily Dickinson’s poems

A warm, sunny West Phliadelphia afternoon in October 1989

The Tom Ollendorff Trio with Conor Chaplin, James Maddren, and special guest Tim Garland at the Bird’s Eye in Basel, 16 March 2024

Gambling in lyrics by Robert Hunter and by Taylor Swift